On Mar 22 at 00:55, Martin Husemann spoke:

> On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:40:19PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> 
> > > can one enable the ctl-alt-del key sequence to trigger reboot
> > > NetBSD?
> > 
> > no - because it is a stupid idea.
> 
> I'm not sure - now that we have powerd(8) we should (optionally) make
> it possible to inject that key sequence as a button press into the 
> sysmon event stream. Just like the POWER button on some Mac or Sun keyboards.
> 
> How the script run by powerd deal with it, is the users choice, of course.

Just it should not interfere if ctl-alt-del is registered by the X
window manager (such as Icewm).

-Hanspeter